"GR8 to see Sri @aloknath on Twitter. ... Sir This is a Welcoming Pic
for You #AloknathEffect", wrote Poonam.

Alok Nath, who became the butt of jokes joined the micro-blogging site twitter on
Thursday.

"Pranaam Twitter world! Finally attending the party you guys threw for
me. Let's hope it's a good one. Cheers," Nath posted on Twitter.

Alok Nath on joining Twitter said, "I'm excited to join Twitter since
people have popularised my character on it and I'm happy to now finally share
the real Alok Nath with the world. It feels like there was a party thrown in my
honour and I didn't attend. So I'm attending now, fashionably later than never
and I'm looking forward to engaging with my fans and friends in
real-time."

Pratiksha Rao, Entertainment partnerships manager, Twitter said, "We are
very happy to welcome Alok Nath on Twitter. Twitter is the global town square
where users can engage in live and public conversation about their interests
from news to sports to films to comedy. Twitter users can now engage in
conversation with Alok Nath and discover more about him outside of his TV
shows' persona."

Some of the popular twitter jokes on the veteran actor included,
"Alok Nath wants twitter to add 'Aashirwad' button", "Alok Nath
carried 'Hanuman Chalisa' to school instead of Notebooks" and "When Alok
Nath is around even Salman Khan behaves like a good son."

Alok Nath has spent nearly three decades in the entertainment industry. He came
into limelight with popular soap ‘Buniyaad’. He has acted in blockbuster like ‘Maine Pyaar Kiya, Vivaah’,
‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’, ‘Taal’, ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’, ‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’
and many more.